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Well if you missed it, my fault, ask me about it sometime...it was great:

Show #27 - YesSolos

I finally found Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow" on CD and thought I'd share a few tracks from it. One thing led to another, and I soon found myself listening to selected solo tracks from the various Yesmen, both on Yes releases and on their own. Round it out (roundabout?) with some tributes, some choice Yes pieces, and you have The Professor returning to yesterday, and his first "art rock" love...Yes. Before things get too happy-clappy I return to My Crimson Fix for a fripped-out change of pace. We'll start everything off with the thunderous live version of "Yours Is No Disgrace" from the 1973 release Yessongs.

PROGRAM NOTE: There will be a new show each week until Christmas (the 11th, 18th, and 25th), then I'll knock off for Christmas break, and be back with a new show the first week of January.

Newer music this week, and more stuff new to RTS: Sieges Even, Jadis, Arena, and Rocket Scientists to name a few. But I'm not done with the Jon Anderson and King Crimson fling, so expect another throwback album side.

Some tasty bits (some quite long!) from Neal Morse's career, focusing on the years from 1999 to the present.

PROGRAM NOTE: There will be a special Christmas Retune The Sky posted 12/21/06 which will replay on Christmas 25th and January 1st while I'm on Christmas break. I'll be back with a new show the first week of January.

Your assignment this week is to let me know of your favorite Neal tunes, from any project he's been involved with. Also feel free to suggest an artist for the next Artist Spotlight, and you can always e-mail me your favorite Crimson-related stuff for your very own Crimson Fix.

Usually I have to buy my own progressive stuff with whatever gift cards or cash I find under the tree, but I had a bit of a surprise this time. And of course I did buy myself more CDs...duh! Try asking YOUR aunt for "Birdsongs of the Mesozoic" sometime...and see what kind of look YOU get from her 8^).

The move was this past weekend! I finally have all of my stuff in the new digs on a different mountain. But, I had no time to record a new show...please enjoy this one from the archives! A new show next week...expect at least one great genre-defining epic for that one.

The bookends are massive Epics, one the great-granddaddy of them all, the other of a much more recent vintage, not to mention nearly twice as long. And they serve to hold in a smattering of the great music one has come to expect from The Dividing Line Broadcast Network, threatening to burst the seams nevertheless.

Adventurous listeners needed for this one! RIO, or Rock In Opposition, has been with us since the early days of the Canterbury Scene in the UK and is still with us, though perhaps not as overtly political, in the form of bands like Miriodor and Univers Zero. Here I stretch my listener's ears a bit with some RIO, Avant-prog, and other musical tomes from off-the-beaten-prog-path.

You have an assignment: have a favorite piece of music that could be classified in these sub-genres? Let me know! And if you hate it all, let me know that as well

And a hearty good morning and welcome to the newest in the DLBN DJ family, Tasha!

You have an assignment: what music do you listen to when you need to let all the cares of the day go by the wayside,when you need to relax and let your brain revibrate? Let me know! at stephen@thedividingline.com. If you missed thevery first episode of "Speechless" (by our newest DLBN DJ, Tasha) last Saturday, don't forget to check out the archive!

Today I was set to debut a show exploring the role of organ in progressive music. While putting it together, I learned of the shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech, the largest public university in the state of Virginia. The director of research into Human-Computer Interaction At Virginia Tech is a friend of mine, as are some of his graduate students.

These are people I love. So, no new show today while I pray and worry. In the meantime, please try to enjoy this mindless entertainment from last May.

This program was posted last Monday (5/14) but I'm just now alerting the public! You have another week (starting with the show replay on 5/21) to enjoy about 90 minutes of progressive music based on mostly acoustic guitar, with only the occasional drum or bass thrown in. The last 30 minutes or so we'll have some more music featuring those good old organ sounds.

Okay, the delayed RTS #39 is up, with an hour or so of Yes Music+, a short mini-spotlight on John Mitchell, guitarist/vocalist with four or five or twenty side projects to his credit, and another track from Odyssey: The Greatest Tale.